Topics include: Conservation; Coral Reefs; Deep Sea
Country/Region: Global
The ocean is the Earth’s biggest life support system, and healthy marine ecosystems are essential for human survival and well-being. As a leader in the global movement to protect vast ocean areas, Marine Conservation Institute uses the latest science to identify important marine ecosystems, advocate for their protection, and measure progress toward effective, sustainable marine protection. Our priority is to help create an urgently-needed worldwide system of Blue Parks, or recognized highly protected areas, to ensure the future diversity and abundance of marine life. To encourage meaningful progress and accurately reflect the current state of marine protection, we also developed and actively maintain the world’s most comprehensive online marine protected area database, the Marine Protection Atlas.
Since starting as the vision of one person in 1996, Marine Conservation Institute has become an influential voice in the global fight to save our ocean. We are an active member of the High Seas Alliance, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, Coral Reefs of the High Seas Coalition, and National Ocean Protection Coalition, working to defend and advance marine protection at home and abroad.
As a founding member of the California Seamounts Coalition, we lead efforts to protect vital deep-sea habitats off the California coast. This work builds on our decade-long effort to conserve coral ecosystems. We also model deep-sea habitats and research their ecosystems to promote protection for these fragile, hard-to-find living treasures.
For 25 years, Marine Conservation Institute has been leading conservation efforts to save our ocean. Growing awareness of threats to our ocean has led to significant expansion of marine protections, but the environmental challenges facing our blue planet are enormous. Your support for our mission is more important now than ever before.
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